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1922 with Army Air Service, where he was one of the 1st enlisted pilots. After a Miami air show in 1934, was invited to inspect Cuba?s air facilities & pilots, & became head of Cuban Air Force. Originated the Cuban Eight aerial maneuver
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Flight aviator air Force test pilot
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(August 17, 1929 - August 1, 1977) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident
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US Navy SEAL, born 1947. UDT for Apollo 12 recovery team
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WW2 air ace - 9 Kills - US Navy - Navy Cross
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One of the developers of the KH-9 Hexagon's panoramic camera system
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Landed a helicopter on the White House lawn in 1974
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Ww2 german fighter pilot, publisher author of thank you canada
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WW 2 pilot Tuskegee airmen
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Test pilot
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Member of the crew of the ''Memphis Belle''--1st B-17 bomber during WWII to fly 25 missions!
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Robert Rackstraw (2)
Private investigative team believe D.B. Cooper is an individual named Robert Rackstraw who flew helicopters in the Vietnam War and is now 73 and living in the San Diego area -
WWII, German Fighter pilot, Jagdgeschwader 51 (JG 51)
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TWA PILOT/Race and Test Pilot
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Born 1938 US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1972 to 1973. 2 Bronze Stars, 1 Distinguished Flying Cross, 1 Legion of Merit, and 1 Defense Superior Service Medal
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WW2 Pilot
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Member of the AVG-Flying Tigers WWII--[3.5 victories]
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WWII air force hero & Ace (275 victories)
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WWII German Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot Ace with 46 victories
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WWII Ace (10 Kills) 56th Fighter Group - USAAF - DSC
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Tuskegee Airmen pilot
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Air evacuation nurse for the U.S. Army Air Force
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United Airlines Flight 232 co-pilot
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101st airborne, c co- not band of brothers
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Born 1942 US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. 2 Bronze Stars and Legion of Merit
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commander 18th wing
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Flight scientist NASA Human Space Flight
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) called 'Sexy Rexy'. Last WASP of South Dakota and as an Oglala Lakota, she is the only female Native American to serve in the WASPs
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'Dr. Werner Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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(Born 1986) US Air Force Afghanistan and Iraq War Veteran. Recipient of an Air Force Cross and 3 Purple Hearts
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Tuskegee Airman
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Member of the Flying Tigers (AVG) WWII
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Flew three sorties over the coast of Normandy on D-Day--the Allied invasion of German-occupied France. About 600 feet below his P-38 Lightning, more than 180,000 Allied troops came ashore in what became known as the ?Longest Day.?
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Tuskegee Airman, flew P-40 and P-47 aircraft
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American Engineer, born 1927. JPL/NASA Project manager for first US satellite, Explorer I. First person to get it's communication that it was in orbit. Left for private career in engineering and consultation
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LCDR - US NAVY Blue Angels
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Pilot of the shuttle carrier aircraft that carried the Endeavour on its last flight
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WWII Fighter Pilot Ace-5 victories, USAAF, 352 Fighter Group, 487 Fighter Squadron
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NASA pilot - X-57 Maxwell, NASA's first all-electric experimental aircraft, DC-8 flying science lab, (SOFIA) Boeing 747SP, the F/A-18, the Beechcraft B200 Super King Air and the remotely piloted X-56 multi-utility technology testbed
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WWII Luftwaffe Ace 28 victories e.g. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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WWII US Fighter Ace (9 Victs.)
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Tuskegee Airman- Pilot
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Tuskegee Airman- Pilot
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1st Lt. US Army Air Corps WW2 veteran who flew a P38. (Born 1924)
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Tuskegee Pilot
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world war 2 fighter ace vf-2 - 5 Kills - US Navy
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WW2 fighter ace - USAAF - 8 Kills
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WW2 Flying Ace & Flying Tigers Pilot
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(Born 1959) US Air Force Gulf and Kosovo War Veteran. With three air-to-air combat victories, he joined 3 other USAF pilots as the closest to becoming a flying ace of any U.S. pilot since the Vietnam War. Flew F-15 Eagle's
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WWII Stuka Ace/Roell is credited with 83 victories during the war and is a German Knights Cross Recipient
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Tuskegee Airmen Pilot
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company ('Band of Brothers')
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The oldest surviving member of the original Tuskegee Airmen who became legendary for their service in World War II. He was born in 1915
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World War II veteran pilot who attained the rank of LGen and was the person credited with effectively removing Rommel from the war. Address is Park Place Corporate Centre 15 Wertheim Court, Suite 503 Richmond Hill, Ontario L4B 3H7
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WWII vet, born 1913. Served in the Philippines and Australia. In his life, saw Lou Gehrig's farewell speech, and met Martin Luther King Jr and Mother Teresa. At 24, drove himself to see a famous airship land, and ended up witnessing the Hindenburg explode
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Lt. Colonel, Christian, husband, father of 5 girls, Founder of Folds of Honor Foundation, USAFR Fighter Pilot, Washington Speakers Bureau, PGA professional and author
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Noted archeologist...great-granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt
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WWII Flying Tiger Pilot 'Joe' Author Flying Tigers Joe Adventure Story Cookbook/(Pilot) (CNAC 1942 - 1945) (Captain - March 1943) (Hump Flights - ???)
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Canadian WWII-Fighter Ace
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WW2 air ace - 5 Kills - USAAF
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Rick Rose (2)CAPT - USMC, US NAVY Blue Angels C-130 'Fat Albert' Pilot
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American fighter pilot (Ret.)/As captain in the US Air Force, flew 30 missions in an F-16 Fighting Falcon during the Persian Gulf War. His book about his experiences in the war, titled Vipers in the Storm: Diary of a Gulf War Fighter Pilot
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Tuskegee Airmen/332nd FG/302nd FS
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Swiss man who flew across English Channel using jet-powered wing strapped to his back
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(No Kum-Sok) Sept 1953 2 months after Korean War ended with an armistice, a 21-year-old North Korean fighter pilot defected to a South Korean airfield with a state-of-the-art Russian fighter plane
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'Easy Company' 'Member of a Band of Brothers'
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WW2 WASP/Airfield Assignments; Love Field & Selman Army Air Field
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JFK/Air Force One crew member that was in Dallas, 22 November 1963
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P-47 Thunderbolt Ace of WWII, F-86 Sabre Ace of WWII, 10.5 victory Ace with 406th FG
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Colonel pilot of Air Force One for Presidents Carter and Reagan
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WW 2 Luftwaffe Fighter Ace and Me262 Pilot 222 victories
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Award winning pilot from Fenwick, Ontario (Born: 05/12/1911) and has been called one of Canada's most experienced air racers
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Air Force test pilot for the X-15 program
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pilot landed small aircraft in red sq. in moscow
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'Space Explorer', 'Private Space Entrepreneur'
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First to fly around the world non-stop, non-refueled. Aircraft named Voyager
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Captain Elizabeth (Liz) Ruth is an American pilot who is the only woman to fly the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. She works at Armstrong Flight Research Center. She has flown for the United States Air Force, flying Boeing T-43 and North
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Tuskegee Airmen 99th Pursuit Squadron
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Japanese naval aviator and flying ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
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Flight scientist, NASA flight director. Artemis Mission Manager
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Member of a Band of Brothers
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'Tuskegee Airmen' '332nd Fighter Group, Overseas Pilot'
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doolittle's raiders crew #15 engineer
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained for W
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WW1 Balloonist/Deployed on land and sea for use in observing enemy troops, artillery spotting, & locating submarines. Importance as observation platforms, balloons were heavily defended by anti-aircraft guns and patrolling fighter aircraft
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Flight attendent in the D. B. Cooper flight in 1971. Now lives in Lexington, South Carolina
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Born: 1935 Belgian aeronaut
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Flight scientist, Kennedy Space Center Director
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Designer of the Taifun missile
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Born 1935 Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. 3 Bronze and Silver Stars and a Legion of Merit
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WWII Fighter Pilot, 357th Fighter Group
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The last known person to have flown on the Hindenburg. Son of Max Schirmer, its aeronautical designer. Flew in 1936 over Switzerland when 5 years old
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test pilot
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German pilot
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Flight scientist engineer in WW2
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WW2 German Pilot
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Canadian Ace of WWII, Pilot
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Test Pilot
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Hero Pilot for Aloha Airlines Flight 243
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Flying Tigers-crew chief
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WWII B-17 Ball Turret Gunner of B-17 'Pot O'Gold' (42-31377), 327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, damaged but on purpose not shot down by German ace Hans Hermann Muller on Feb. 22, 1944. (They later became friends)
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WW2 Luftwaffe Ace and Me262 pilot/Shot down by Joseph Peterburs & later became friends
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Canadian Ace of WWII, Pilot
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Flight aviator, NASA astronaut candidate
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RAF fighter ace 5 victorys test pilot
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Countrys Oldest Licensed Pilot Born:1905
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NASA Astronaut candidate Group 3-1963'Early in Space Program'
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Blue Angels, U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron FA-18 Flight Demonstration Pilot
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leading physicist of the Soviet Union
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German pilot
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Co-pilot on flights backing up Air Force 1 during JFK presidency.Former U.S. Air Force captain. Met Kennedy family & spent time with Caroline & John Jr. During Cuban missile crisis, his plane carried a JFK decoy during a top-secret flight
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German WWII-Pilot, Ju88 pilot, Mistel mission of WWII
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B-17 bomber pilot, WWII, 8th Air Force. Shot down by a FW-109 over Ruhland, Germany, 12 September 1944. Sole survivor in a crew of ten. P.O.W. for 9 months. PH AM POW medals
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Ace (5 kills - 2 in WWII & 3 in Korean War)- USAAF/USAF, p-47, f-86, me 109
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'Band of Brothers' '101st Airbourne Division, 506th Parahute Infantry Regiment, Easy Company' 'Battlefield Commission- Normandy'
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Flight scientist, NASA Official
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Aviator
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'Royal Air Force Crewman'
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Was one of the first women in the U.S. to become a pilot for a major airline
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Tuskegee Airman, crew chief
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SR-71 Pilot and author of the book 'Sled Driver'. Also Flew A-7 Corsair
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Southwest pilot that saved passengers
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Flight aviator 1963 group 3 astronaut candidate
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Civilian test pilot
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Flight scientist, Kennedy Space Center launch director
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(Born 1923) WW2 Bombraider Army Air Corps 384th Bombardment Group
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Flight Attendant Air Force One & special assistant to President Ford for over 30 years http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Lee-Simmons/1317597735
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained for W
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doolittles radiers
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US WWII Navy, born 1924. Sent as part of the occupying forces in Japan at the end of the war. Re-enlisted and served as part of the weather recon air squadron for the 1946 Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests in 1946
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Flight aviator WASP
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Flew last F-14 combat mission
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Flight aviator
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Sully's heroic co-pilot from Flight 1549
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Boy witness to Hindenburg crash in 1937
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Battle of Britain pilot
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Night fighter ace, flew P-61's with the 418th NFS
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Hump Pilot to China
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Tuskegee Airmen Pilot
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WWII Fighter Ace (6 kills), 56th Fighter Group, 'Zemke's Wolfpack', flew the p-47
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Walter Smith (3)Flight aviator
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Aviator, WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) lives in San Antonio, TX
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At 19, she beat out Amelia Earhart to be named the best female pilot in the country. The 'intrepid birdwoman' was also featured on a Wheaties box.
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Test pilot
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(Born 1935) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Recipient of 1 Silver Star and 7 Distinguished Flying Crosses
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Test pilot
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WWII WASP Women Pilot
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Retired rocket engineer, born 1937, hired to work with Von Braun's team in 1958. Worked on the recently launched Explorer I satellite project, and then a career at NASA, with contributions to the Apollo and Skylab missions
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
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Survivor of the crash and last living adult crewman of the Hindenburg. Died in 2005
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Aviation pioneer W/Fred Sigrist, others set up Sopwith Aviation Company which produced 18,000+ British WWI aircraft for allied forces, including 5747 of the famous Sopwith Camel single-seat fighter/awarded the CBE 1918
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Flight aviator American test pilot m2-f1, m2-f2
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Pilot
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'Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Binbrook'
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WWII Ace (9.5 kills) 361st Fighter Group - USAAF - DSC
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Radio operator, 'Bockscar,' plane that dropped bomb on Nagasaki
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Co-Designer of the F-16, founder of Mapleshade Records
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US Navy vet, born 1940. Assigned to the USS Lake Champlain in 1961, participated in the recovery of Alan Sheperd and Freedom 7. Helped make the bed that the recovered capsule was set upon
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The last surviving woman to have flown on the Hindenburg, born in 1925. Her flight was in Sept. 1936, her mother named it's 1,000th passenger. She grew up to be one of South Carolina's leading environmentalists
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained for W
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German Flying Ace Of World War II
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WW2 air ace - 10 Kills - USAAF
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Croatian World War II pilot, born 1916, lives in Pancevo, Serbia
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world war 2 fighter ace (6 kills)- USAAF
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American pilot, winner of many awards and races, one of the Mercury 13 female astronauts proposed in 1961
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(Born June 22, 1922) is an American government official, World War 2 Veteran, aviator and author
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)Flew the c-45
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Worldwar II aircraft fighter - Writer
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German pilot
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American aviatrix who held the women's record for outside loops
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C-17 Test Pilot
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Tuskegee Airman WWII, received Distinguished Flying Cross
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WWII B-24 pilot of the last plane to return from the Ploesti Refineries raid - DSC
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WW2 Tuskegee Airmen. One of The Last Voices of World War II in the June 2020 issues of National Geographic. Flew P-51 / P-47 / P-40
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WWII, 101st Airborne, Orig. Band of Brothers born 1922
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WW2 VF-14 Hellcat Fighter Ace - 8 Kills - US Navy
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Member of the Tuskegee Airmen (Born 1924) Author
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Member of the famous Doolittle Raiders -Surprise bombing of Tokyo during WWII 'Co-Pilot Crew #10'
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(Born 1944) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Got the Air Force Cross. Retired as a Brigadier General
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American WWII Fighter Ace (13.5 Victs.) - 356th Fighter Group - USAAF
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(Born June 12, 1919) is an American aviator.Last living ATAGIRL
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Centenarian (1905-2008), witness of 2 major aviation events. In the 1909 crowd that watched O.Wright demonstrate his plane for the US military. Married to WWII Marine, lived on hill near Pearl Harbor in 1941, first bomb hit nearby house
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'Dr. Wernher Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Pilot for US Airway Flight 1549 which was successfully landed in the Hudson River adjacent to Manhattan six minutes after departing from LaGuardia Airport
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Former U.S. -General, U.S. Air Force
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Flight aviator, pilot SR-71 Speed Run-New York to London
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Kiribati businessman, CEO of Coral Sun Airways
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Tuskegee Airmen, '99th', 'Bronze Star', 'Mechanic'. April 1941-June 1946!
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WWII - Gunner in the Dambusters Raid of 1943
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American born chief engineer for the development of the Boeing 747. Worked as an engineer for the Boeing Airplane Company. He is now 90 and resides in West Seattle
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Blue Angel pilot turned pro hockey player
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'Royal Air Force Seaplane Pilot'
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United States Army Air Force pilot who flew Bockscar carrying the Fat Man atomic bomb to the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Author of War's End: An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission
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US Navy makes history as US Navy's 1st Black female fighter pilot LT. JG Madeline Swegle
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'Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Brampton'
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Pilot
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Japanese aircraft and automotive engineer. Japanese WWII Veteran
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, 101st Airborne Division
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Army Captain Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient. Was awarded by President Biden in September of 2023 for his actions Ap Go Cong, South Vietnam in 1968. (Born 1942)
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The only African-American female to pilot the U-2 spy plane
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'Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Abingdon'
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Tuskegee Airmen, WW2; helped found Tuskegee Airmen Inc
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Test pilot - Flew a F-82 Twin Mustang from Honolulu to New York
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Doolittle's Raiders crew #7 Engineer/Gunner
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Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Flying Training School Cranwell
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WASP, flew the a-24, a-25, b-34, UC-78, at-7, at-11
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US Air Force SR-71, U-2 and RB-57F Test Pilot
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Member of the 'Skyrocket' Crew
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Tuskegee Pilot
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WWII: Piloted B-4, B-17 and P-51 planes in the 839th Squadron, 487th Bombardment Group, 8th AF(Lavenham base). 30 missions (including D - Day) from 6 May to 5 November 1944. Wounded twice: 14 October 1944 at Cologne and 5 November 1944 at Ludwigshafen
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F-86 Sabre pilot assigned to the 39thFighter Interceptor Squadron, 51st Fighter Interceptor Group during the Korean Conflict. Besides gaining 2 aerial victories over MiG-15s
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Tuskegee Airman- Pilot
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
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Former British Airways cabin crew member (Born: 1927) who worked on the first jet flight from London to New York in 1958 on the de Havilland Comet 4
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(February 11, 1953 - May 24, 1986), (Lt Cmdr, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot and a NASA astronaut candidate.Thorne was killed in an aircraft accident of a stunt plane -in which he was a passenger- on May 24, 1986
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Air Force One Pilot for LBJ 1968 and 1969
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USAF Demonstration Squadron
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)
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WWII Fighter Pilot Ace-6 victories, USAAF, 356 Fighter Group, 361 Fighter Squadron
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P-61 Pilot during WWII-(15 victories)
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Retired Air Force Colonel; Flew Air Force One
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Tuskegee Airmen/477th Bomber Group/'LA Chapter'
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Former high-profile Soviet-era test pilot who initially came to public attention as a test pilot for the Buran space shuttle
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One of the first five African American F-4 Phantom II pilots to serve under the famed Tuskegee Airman Gen. Daniel 'Chappie' James
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Hero Co-Pilot for Aloha Airlines Flight 243
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Tuskegee Airman- Pilot
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Shot down me-262 in ww2ww2 fighter ace
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NASA pilot - high-altitude ER-2 Earth science aircraft and the C-20A, a modified Gulfstream III business jet that carries a sophisticated synthetic aperture radar on environmental science missions
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
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German pilot
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WW2 Navy fighter Ace, VF-29 - 7 Kills
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1/7/1906-1/24/2003 Early female aviator, notable for pioneering flying activities & participated in Women's Air Derby of 1929, dubbed Powder Puff Derby/Flew 1st Women's Transcontinental Air Derby with aviators including Amelia Earhart
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WWII: ETO. D - Day. Canadian paratrooper who was taken POW on D - Day
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Flight aviator, Mercury 13
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Test Pilot : Tested the X-4 and others.
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Tuskegee Airmen, WWII
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(Born 1939) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Flew the F-105. 12th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 18th Tactical Fighter Wing. Shot down in 1965 in Vietnam and recused
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Flight aviator
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Scott Turner (2)Current Pilot of Air Force One
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Boat Driver in James Bond 'From Russia With Love', WWII veteran, once held the World Air Speed Record
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Member of Flying Tigers, WWII
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Navigator of the Enola Gay Crew. Born: 02/27/1921
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youngest female pilot to fly across america
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Bocks Car Crew, Navigator, WW II, Nagasaki
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WWII Fighter Ace (11 Victs.), Dive Bomber Pilot at Coral Sea awarded 3 Navy Cross medals during WWII
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SR-71 pilot
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Female French aviator, Concorde pilot
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Former German Pilot, Member of the Crew of the 'Landshut'
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)Flew the AT-10, BT-13
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Italian aviator that boasts 80 years of uninterrupted flight activity. Born October 13, 1914
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German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte). He is considered the ace-of-aces during World War I, being officially credited with 80 air combat victories.Richthofen was a member of an aristocratic family wit
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navy aviator (blue angels) hero
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WWII Fighter Navy Ace (19 Victs.)
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Czech pilot ace who fought for France in the Battle of France and for Britian in the Battle of Britain
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Senior commander in Royal Australian Air Force. Wackett introduced parachutes to the Australian Air Force and made the country?s first free fall parachute descent from a military aircraft in Australia on May 27, 1926
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(November 1, 1955-August 31, 1991), pilot of 'Boston', involved in the U.S. Army's first round-the-world flight
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World Champion female stunt pilot
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Overcame massive claustrophobia/ fear of heights to become a fighter pilot. Flew missions in Iraq, SE Asia, & Kosovo during Operation Allied Force. Awarded numerous prestigious medals. Author and professional speaker
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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WW2 US Navy serving from 1943 to 1965 as a E5 Air Traffic Controller. Was in battles Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. (Born 1927)
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Creator of 'Little Nellie' Autogyro
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Staff Sgt. James Harley Wallwork DFM (21 October 1919 - 24 January 2013) British soldier, member Glider Pilot Regiment achieved notability as pilot of 1st Horsa glider to land at Pegasus Bridge in the early hours of D-Day, 6 June 1944 WW2
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Former Chief Concorde Pilot with British Airways
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WWII American Fighter Pilot Ace
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Irish airline CEO, CEO of the International Airlines Group and British Airways, formerly CEO of Aer Lingus
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WW2 Pilot, born 11 February 1919) is a United States Army World War II veteran and a centenarian
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First woman to become a pilot with a major Australian airline
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(Born 1941) US Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran. As a Marine aviator flew over 100 combat missions in Southeast Asia. POW 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
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Army paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division and Author
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Tuskegee Airmen ww2
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
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Tuskegee Airman
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James Watkins (2) WW2 Flying Ace USAAF 49th FG - 12 Kills - DSC
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Flight aviator
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Member of the Tuskegee Airmen
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'Tuskegee Airmen' 'The Fighting 99th Squadron' the original Tuskegee group!
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The only african american pilot to fly the SR-71 Blackbird
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WW2 fighter ace - VF-18 - 10 Kills - Navy Cross
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WWII: Lancaster bomber pilot of the 101 (Special Duties) Squadron at Ludford Magna in Lincolnshire, served from November 1943 incl. the Battle of Berlin, Munich and survived the disastrous Nuremberg raid on 30th March 1944 when 97 aircraft were lost
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Tuskegee Airmen
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SR-71 test pilot; survived catastrophic breakup of SR-71 at 78,000 ft at Mach 3.18
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Blue Angels, U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
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'Dr. Wernher Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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Experimental Test Pilot, Lockheed
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Navy's Blue Angels Pilot
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WW II Pilot 6 victories born 1923
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Fighter ace world war 2 vmf-323 death rattlers- 5 kills
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Pioneering aviatrix, journalist (1908-2002). Co-founder of 'Ninety-Nines' women's group with A. Earhardt, worked with Wiley Post, first female parachutist from a damaged plane, White House reporter (1963-77), 1 of 3 women reporters on Nixon's China trip
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WWII Fighter Pilot Ace-6 victories, US Navy, VF-16
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'Pad Leader'/'Fuhrer of the Pad' Mercury & Gemini Space Flights & Apollo Missions 1967-1975
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WWII Pilot Ace- Flew the P-38 & P-40--[14 victories]- DSC
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Women's Army Corps
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British engineer (Born: 1927) who was instrumental in Britain's successful development of rocket launchers and hovercraft. He worked on the Black Arrow rocket programme. He is now 89. Lives in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK
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Tuskegee airmen ww2
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NASA physicist, trained astronaut (never went to space)
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test pilot
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Azellia White (June 3, 1913) was an American aviator who was the first African-American woman to earn a pilot's license in Texas
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Tuskegee Airmen Pilot
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Tuskegee Airmen (Would have to be 83 years old or older if lied about age & entered at age 16 to become an Airmen)
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Tuskegee airmen ww2
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers',
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German pilot
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One of the last witnesses to the Hindenburg Crash of 1937
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American aerospace researcher
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Archbishop of Warsaw
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Tuskegee Airmen Pilot
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 5 victories. ETO. 309th FS, 31 FG
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(Born 1957) US Air Force Veteran. Was in Cold War, Invasion of Panama 1989-1990, Somalia 1993, and Haiti 1994. Air Force Cross Recipient
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WW II 27 May 1944 - Missing in Action Shot down by flak in northern France, east of St. Leger.Belly-landed plane in sugar-beet field and evaded capture with the help of the French Resistance. Born: 10/17/1921
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Tuskegee Airmen, In 1948, Williams was recalled to military service during the Berlin Airlift. President Harry Truman integrated military service in 1949 & Eldridge Williams departed for his first integrated assignment on the island of Okinawa
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Centenarian (1895-2002). British WWI veteran, last living pilot of the Royal Flying Corps. Bombed German trenches in France, later had his Sopwith Camel shot down over Greece. Second last living pilot to have been in WWI dogfights
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'B-25 Tuskegee Airmen' 'Class of 43-J'
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F9 Pilot in both Korean and Vietnam War
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NASA pilot - NASAs first all-electric experimental aircraft, the X-57 Maxwell, and flies the ER-2 high-altitude science aircraft, C-20A environmental science research aircraft, F/A-18, T-34C and TG-14 research motorglider
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Author/Inventor/U.S. Air Force Cold War spy, nearly getting shot down by Russian MIGs, and landing in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis/makes his fortune working for computer software magnate Bill Gates
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'Royal Air Force 2nd Pilot Flight Lt.'
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'Dr. Werner Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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WW2 air ace - 6 Kills - USAAF
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US Meteorologist (1931-2023) Creator of the 'Heat index' and HIndenburg witness. Heard the explosion near his house as a 5 year old boy, drove with his grandfather to find the smoking ship in flames on the ground
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WW2 Veteran:Crew Chief On Douglas C-47 Dakota Aircraft
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Pilot of Vulcan that bombed Port Stanley operation black buck
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Tuskegee Airmen
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(Born 1934) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Recipient of the Air Force Cross and Distinguished Service Cross
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WWII German Stuka Pilot - 405 missions Eastern Front 1943-45 born 1923
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Flight aviator
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WW2 Wasp. Author of We Were Wasps
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1/27/1909-3/18/2001 American aviatrix along with husband Jimmie Woods, formed longest-lasting air circus, the Flying Aces Air Circus. Served with the Civil Air Patrol during WW2 later becoming an aircraft mechanic and piloting teacher
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WWII Bomber pilot,Navigator, 90th Bomb Group, 320 Bomb Squadron
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Pioneer in the Commercial Aviation Industry/ Wordlaw is one of approximately 25 black female pilots flying for a major airline in the U.S. today/Featured in the film, 'The Women's List'
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(Born 1946) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Air Force Cross and Silver Star Recipient
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NASA pilot - Gulfstream G-III. Flew combat search and rescue in USAF
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(Born 1935) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Air Force Cross and Bronze Star Recipient. Retired as a lieutenant colonel
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Member of the Flying Tigers (AVG) WWII
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WWII flew a P-51 Mustang (three confirmed aerial victories, one of which was against a Me-262 ? the eighth to have ever been shot down). Brigadier General. AKA: 'Mormon Mustang'
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Glider Pilot, World champion 1965
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
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Flight aviator 1965 group 4 astronaut candidate
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Co-Pilot on first 747 test flight
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Kodak Engineer, born 1945. Part of the team that worked on the mid-60s Lunar Orbiter missions that mapped the moon prior to the Apollo landings
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
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(Born 1924) US Navy WW2 Veteran. Combat Air Crewman in Patrol Bombing Squadron VP-63. He was sent to Mediterranean, North Atlantic, Bay of Biscayne, Africa, England, and Gibraltar
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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Test pilot
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First Mach 1.0 flight in history 'Test Pilot'
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Voyager Co-Pilot w/ Dick Rutan
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SR-71 Blackbird pilot
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot). BT-13, PT-19 and B-25
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US WWII Army Air Corps radioman, born 1925. Flew over Hiroshima the day after the bomb hit, and also witnessed the mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, as part of the air support for Bockscar, the plane that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki
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world war 2 fighter ace (5 kills) of the 359th Fighter Group - USAAF
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First african american to fly an F-14. Father of Dmitri and Delmon Young
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(Born 1923) WW2 Women Airforce Service Pilot. Served from 1942 to 1946. Flew PT-17, BT-13, AT-6
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NASA test pilot
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Major - USMC, US NAVY Blue Angels
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Former Airbus senior vice president for engineering, and French fighter pilot in the Indochina war, is living in France
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One of Airbus founders & 1st President. Fought for French Resistance WW2. 1944 made commander of the Free French air forces in London, going on to become chief of staff of the French Forces of the Interior under General Koenig
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'Easy Company' 'Member of a Band of Brothers'
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WWII Fighter Pilot Ace-5 victories, US Navy, VF-11/18/17 USS Intrepid & USS Hornet
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Glider pilot
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(Born 1941) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Bronze stars and a Legion of Merit
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Survivor of US Airways Flight 1549, who was successfully ditched in the Hudson River adjacent to Manhattan six minutes after departing from LaGuardia Airport
